Waiting for the other shoe to drop

To await an event that is expected to happen, due to being causally linked to another event that has already been observed. Gets its origin from the joke in the example.

A guest who checked into an inn one night was warned to be quiet because the guest in the room next to his was a light sleeper. As he undressed for bed, he dropped one shoe, which, sure enough, awakened the other guest. He managed to get the other shoe off in silence, and got into bed. An hour later, he heard a pounding on the wall and a shout: "When are you going to drop the other shoe?" Thus the term "waiting for the other shoe to drop."

by Bill Koch March 21, 2007

waiter's nightmare

A bad dream experienced by persons who wait tables for a living. The details in the dream may vary, but the one constant of all waiters nightmares is a full station (assigned tables) of unhappy customers (or members if the establishment is a private club). A common WN is arriving late at work and finding your station already full to capacity. Another common one is not being able to get organized, and realizing you have forgotten to turn in an order to the kitchen for a table that has been waiting a long time. Coming out of the kitchen with a tray of entrees and dropping it on the floor is a favorite. One of the more disturbing waiters nightmares is having a large table of people, or maybe even more than one table in the party, and after waiting for what seems like hours for their food to come up, and it's like midnight and all other customers and wait staff are long gone, and you go into the kitchen to check on your food, and all the cooks have cleaned up the kitchen and left, and didn't make your table's food.

Anybody who has worked as a server is familiar with the waiter's nightmare

by Woody Thomas December 11, 2009

two waitresses to go with nothing on them

An interesting thing to order at a McDonalds drive through when you're pissed. (Yes, I actually did this, and no, I wasn't driving...)

Drive through speaker: Is that everything?

Drunk passenger: We'd also like two waitresses to go with nothing on them, please.

Drive though speaker: <Silence>

by Eugene206 October 13, 2006

Waitress Friendly

When a bartender or waitress fakes being friendly toward you. This is usually in order to get a better tip or to keep you coming back.

"I thought that waitress was interested in me, but she was just being waitress friendly."

by JerryLMacDonald May 1, 2008

waitress sandwich

A sexual position in which a man sits on a chair while a woman (such as a waitress) sits on top and a second man sits on top of her, as immortalized by U.S. senators Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy in 1985.

The two senators made a "waitress sandwich" while their dates were in the bathroom.

by TedFan85 August 31, 2013

waiting in vain

Hopelessly waiting for something/someone that will never be yours.

I was waiting in vain for him to leave his wife.

by BRE11:11 July 5, 2016

tom waits

a musician of multiple genres started from 1970-present. he is probably one of the most underapperciated artists of all time and the most famous person nobody has heard off.


must listens are albums "rain dogs", "mule variations", "orphans brawlers bawlers and bastards".

he talks like tom waits.

he dresses like tom waits

you should listen to tom waits

by Zack Briscoe January 24, 2009